Introduction
 
Vienna:
A City at the
Crossroads
 
The Jewish
Community
 
The Tragedy
of Success:
Jews in the Public Life
 
The Rise of
the Women's
Movement
 
Innovations in the Arts,
Sciences and
Literature
 

Nazi Era:
Starting Over

 

The Rise of the Women’s Movement
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Viennese Office, c1900 Villa Regina
By 1900, many Viennese women were working as secretaries in offices, like the secretary at left. She is using a typewriter, which may be an Ideal Model A.  The Ideal was made in Germany by Siedel & Naumann and introduced in 1900.
 
 

Regine Goldscheider, sitting in front of Villa Regina in the Cottage Quarter of Vienna Währing-Döbling that she bought in 1904.